Deletion icon/button is unclear
When a note is displayed, 4 buttons/icons are displayed below (left-aligned), as this shows:
The first one, which I highlighted with a red rectangle in the screenshot above, is the most useful, allowing to delete the note. Unfortunately, its role is unclear, since there is neither a label nor a tooltip, and the image is unclear. The image depicts a trash can, but it is hard to recognize for several reasons:
- Top and left margins are missing.
- It is not gray (only black over the light gray background).
- The top appears to be detached from the bottom.
- The wheel (bottom right) is unusual for trash cans (more associated with outdoors containers).
- The icons are small.
I understand that notes try to be unobtrusive and the decision to use small icons without labels, but there are still multiple solutions possible:
- Add a left margin
- Ensure that a top margin shows (there is currently a bug which causes the bottom line's height to vary widely, depending on the note's height)
- Use color icons
- Add tooltips to icons/buttons
- Use a more usual/standard trash can icon, such as Thunderbird's (which I highlighted with a green rectangle in the above screenshot) or Firefox's (pictured below)
This icon appears to have replaced XNote++'s earlier red cross icon between 4.3.32 and 4.3.38. This affects XNote++ 4.3.38 with Thunderbird 128.8 on Microsoft Windows 11.
Thanks to @opto for his help finding this button
it is not a wheel, it is a white x in a black circle ....
and actually, they do have tooltips, (=title attribute), but TB does not display themany longer ...
it is not a wheel, it is a white x in a black circle ....
Oh, I see, sorry… well thanks, but in that case the icon needs to be bigger, or the circle needs to be red to be recognizable. But frankly, I don't think having an "x" on a trash can icon is a good idea. I think the icon should be either a trash can, an "x" or something else like a minus sign.
and actually, they do have tooltips, (=title attribute), but TB does not display themany longer ...
Ah. Thanks
I did originally not find a trash icon inside TB and will use the one from your screenshot above.
Tooltips: TB did the transfer from xhtml windows to html windows, in there, the tooltip got lost. I will check what windowtype inTB can show the tooltip and how they realise it now (it did work in XNote before). Example: the cog symbol on the addons page has a tooltip. So i need to verify how they insert that icon and add the tooltip.
it has a tooltip but it is not shown (it is added as text attribute to an image).
Just saw that TB uses buttons instead of img and a background image in a css class.I will try that in one of the next versions.